shanghaied

The shanghaied man stood facing Schantze, with all the deference of a sailor, yet subtly defiant.

He had none the less been shanghaied for a voyage of great length, and he had been shanghaied out of sincere kindness.

But Bowers appeared to have vanished as entirely as though he had been shanghaied and was a hundred miles at sea.

I was shanghaied onto a freighter, and had to work for eight years without pay to get passage back.

In the carriage I asked the detective chief what was meant by ‘Shanghaied’ for it was evidently a criminal class word.